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Arlo…

“At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.”
~ Arlo Guthrie

Intelligent people…

Intellectuals go to sleep late and get up late.
Highly intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person.
Talking to yourself is the sign of high intelligence.
They underestimate themselves more than ignorant people.
They are Open-Minded.
They are less likely to keep traditional values.

Steve Goodman was a very good man

Basically, Steve was exactly who he appeared to be: an ambitious, well-adjusted man from a loving, middle-class Jewish home in the Chicago suburbs, whose life and talent were directed by the physical pain and time constraints of a fatal disease which he kept at bay, at times, seemingly by willpower alone . . . Steve wanted to live as normal a life as possible, only he had to live it as fast as he could . . . He extracted meaning from the mundane.